Apple A10 Fusion vs Intel Core2 Duo E6700. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server
• Family
  Apple A series Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  10 1
• CPU group
  Apple A10/A10X Intel Core 2 Duo
• Predecessor
  Apple A9 --
• Successor
  Apple A11 Bionic --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  1.30 GHz 2.66 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.34 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal
• A core
  2x Hurricane --
• B core
  2x Zephyr --

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Apple A10 no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB --
• Max. displays
  1
• Generation
  7
• Technology
  16 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core2 Duo E6700 and Apple A10 Fusion. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-3200 DDR2-1066
• Max. Memory
  3 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  1 1

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Apple A10 Fusion and Intel Core2 Duo E6700 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  5 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Apple A10 Fusion and Apple A10 Fusion, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None VT-x
• ISA extensions
  SSE3
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  A10 Conroe
• Technology
  10 nm 65 nm
• Socket
  N/A LGA 775
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q3/2006